> I flirted with noiseless for a while and came to a different conclusion
Fair enough! Everyone has their own likes.
Noise free single coils really have a second coil to eliminate noise. But like anything else, there are good and bad designs. (I do think there are some great ones out there.)
The silent circuit really does the same thing- it's a dummy coil wired in to eliminate noise. So if you're a purist then you might want to unwire it for the same reasons.
